(this is a poll, so if the choices haven't appeared they will in a few minutes)
So... in the depth of your soul, in the still loneliness of darkest night, what are you really afraid of? What do you dread? What causes your heart to pound, your brow to perspire, the hair to stand up on the back...
Apologies in advance for writing a book here. This is just sort of free form - it's been on my mind for a long time.
See, I had or thought I had a really good friend, we were very close for almost 12 years. One of the things I liked about our friendship was that we had a couple of pretty major...
It's easy to overlook because of Halloween, but Oct. 31st was Reformation Day, 490 years since Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses:
From Blue Letter Bible
"In honor of Reformation Day. The preservation of the gospel of Christ is always worth celebrating, now as in any era. In 1517, one...
..."People sometimes wonder if theyre feeling real love. These same people never wonder if theyre sexually aroused, or sad. Then whats the problem about recognizing love? Most often, because theyre sensing a conflict: theyre feeling the depth of their need, not the heights of their love...
People disagree on so many things. Are you an habitual arguer? Do you know someone who is? Why do people argue? I've know elderly people who seem to have BECOME nothing more than an ongoing argument. Their personality has congealed into a mass of contention. They don't even need anyone else in...
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
From a Snopes article:
Someone told me that that the words to "Amazing Grace" were written by the captain of a slave ship in the 1880s. He was bringing a large...
The original thread has gotten very long, and the debate has gone down several paths but I felt the OP asked a legitmate and honest question.
While I have several reasons for finding Islam personally unappealing, this post from Islam QA pretty much sums up the worst quandry of it for me...
From the Sunday Times UK Online comes this horrifying story:
Someone says 30 girls have been buried inside the grounds of the mosque.
No matter how many times I read about someone doing things like this to little children I can't wrap my mind around such horror and abuse. It is absolutely...
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and...
It was a dark and stormy night. Sitting in the gloom, pensively smoking a legal substance, I pondered once again: why post anything at all when all you have is this stupid dysfunctional dial up. And then it hit me like a lightning bolt!
Quick, unplug the modem you fool, before it gets fried...
i am embarrassed to confess how much this is bothering me, but i believe you will see this for the injustice that it truly is, and the threat to democracy the situation represents.
Madd Llama's avatar is bigger than mine. I am left feeling inadequate and insignificant.
I think she...
i've been going through something lately some of you might relate to.
i am sick of politics and religion. Now, i've never been one to lack an opinion on any subject. but it seems like there is a divisiveness reaching fever pitch on these and other forums - and of course this is reflected IRL...
In order to limit my OWN confusion I switched my username and avatar to the one I use on other forums: !Fluffy!
-- only to realize how similar it is to to a popular poster of the male persuasion here on RF: Fluffy. Thankfully our avatars are not similar in the least.
My apologies for any...
Can there be Christianity without "religion"? Is "religious Christianity" false Christianity?
For purposes of this discussion only, I am going to stick with that definition:
"any system of practice and observance intended to make people more acceptable to God".
The claim is that there is...
from the Center for Immigration Studies
The obvious solution to any illegal or criminal act: enforce the law, stupid.
There are too many reasons to address in depth, here's a few.
CRIME: Several studies have indicated at least one in twelve illegal aliens has a criminal background. Just...
Immigration Bill in Doubt After Vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - A fragile compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants risks coming unraveled after the Senate voted early Thursday to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign...
There are two very good analyses of the Liberal vs Conservative conversation out there. George Will makes the case for understanding the two in terms of freedom and equality. Phil Waring is skeptical and tends to make it more a pragmatic concern ("what's in it for me") - which strikes a chord...